(CNN)A Canadian federal government envoy, Daniel Jean, nationwide security consultant to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and his celebration showed up in Pyongyang, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported. It offered no more information about why the Canadian authorities existed.

Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim has actually been apprehended in North Korea for about 2 years. The 62-year-old’s health has actually weakened while in North Korean custody, and the pastor has actually experienced “significant” weight-loss, household spokesperson Lisa Pak stated.

In letters to household, buddies, and members of his church in Mississauga, Ontario, Lim has actually experienced stomach discomfort and hypertension.

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The Swedish Embassy in Pyongyang has actually functioned as an intermediary for Lim, as they made with other detainees from nations without any official diplomatic relations with North Korea. This has actually consisted of passing letters, as well as high blood pressure medication, inning accordance with the Lim household.

Lim’s household had actually stepped up requires his release considering that the death of American college student Otto Warmbier in June.

Warmbier was on a sightseeing excursion of North Korea when he was apprehended in early 2016 and later on charged and founded guilty with trying to take a propaganda poster from his hotel.

He passed away 6 days after his release from North Korea due to a brain injury sustained while in custody. When he returned house to his household near Cincinnati, he was in a vegetative state.